Spielberg and Kubrick's "A.I." is now a reality.

http://www.muckflash.com/?p=200

Well, apparently they didn't think about Kenji going too far with affection, being it appears they didn't program anything into him to control those emotions. Perhaps they need to create a robot, call it/her Lucy, that would act as a psychiatrist and help Kenji control his "love" emotions. As of now, they just made Kenji have the emotional equivalent of a stalker.

I think AI technology will eventually make strides in making robots that are more attuned to human emotions, but I don't think it will ever be 100-percent. There's way too much chaos in the math when it comes to true, human emotions. Once science finds a way to engineer chaos formulas in the framework, then you'll begin to see some remarkable things happen in the robotics industry. Until then, there are going to be constant errors to fix, such as Kenji. Nevertheless, they did prove the emotions could be programmed, but I don't really think that surprises anyone who keeps up on technology. The true feat here is getting them to control a multitude of human emotions throughout the course of a day.

Salad, anyone?



Of course, there is the whole paranoid side of the argument, and that is will AI make machines self aware. Let's just say it does -- I think we'd be smart enough to have a "kill switch" if that were to ever happen. But could the machines out hack the human hacker and disable the kill switch? If that happens, then I'm sure the world will fall into mass chaos and turmoil. Nevertheless, I don't think this is a big worry as AI is still created on a controlled, linear framework and foundation. Remember, one of the key words in "AI" is "Artificial".



The other thing is, how much personality do we really need in a robot? I think anyone first needs to ask what services you want the robot to perform? If it's some simple house chores, then does it really need to be up and running around while you're trying to sit back and watch a movie? Then again, a robot programmed to give you moral support during a football game might be fun. I can understand the situation of having a childcare robot that would have charming and tender emotions, but the reality is, is it necessary?

Kenji really wasn't a failure if you consider the "Disney" emotions that were programmed into it/him did take effect. The problem is they didn't program "tough love" emotions, like Judge Judy, into Kenji, thus turning it/him into an insecure, over emotional girl robot.

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[Post edited by Tim Raynor on Mar 20, 2009 - CDT 7:09 PM]

There is no doubt that in the future (not anytime soon), robotics and artificial intelligence will present a moral dilemma if we choose to make them appear as human, which we probably will IMO.

Just imagine the progress in this area humans have reached in just the last 50 years. Now imagine 200 years later. I'm going to guess that America will not need Mexicans or other recent immigrants illegal or legal to work in meat packing plants and lettuce farms even 50 years from now.

Any fan of good science fiction like Asimov or dozens of other pioneer thinkers, already knows this is not just a possibility, but a certainty. Many of their predictions have come true already, both good and bad.

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On a serious note, I liked A.I. I would double dip for that one on bd.

The AI movie. made me feel like shubbing something in my eye!